2001 Translation

CHOIROUS, choirous

Sounds Like: KHOY-roos

Translations: pigs, hogs, swine

From the root: ΧΟΙΡΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to pigs, hogs, or swine. It is often used in contexts related to animal husbandry, such as herding, or in biblical narratives, like the account of demons entering a herd of pigs.

Inflection: Accusative, Plural, Masculine

Strong’s number: G5519 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:19

Codex Sinaiticus

• Matthew — 8:32
• Mark — 5:12, 5:13
• Luke — 8:33, 15:15

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 8:32
• Mark — 5:12, 5:13
• Luke — 8:33, 15:15

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΧΟΙΡΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΧΟΙΡΙΟΝ — piglet, a piglet, young pig, a young pig, swine
• ΧΟΙΡΟΙ — pigs, hogs, swine
• ΧΟΙΡΟΝ — pig, a pig, hog, a hog, swine
• ΧΟΙΡΟΣ — pig, a pig, hog, a hog, swine
• ΧΟΙΡΩΝ — of pigs, of hogs, of swine

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